What happened to Mr Abrery is an individual tragedy, in this case he deserves our sympathies and is deserving of the fullest and fairest application of the law it is possible to provide.
As do any of the other X 100s of people killed at the hands of others in this country every year, regardless of race.
That aside, it is unfortunate that the media and certain politicians have decided some killings in this country are more deserving of our attention and our sympathies than are others.
I agree. Absolutely.
However, this shooting resulting in a death took place on February 23rd.
The first prosecutor recused herself, pointing out that Gregory McMichael, a former Glynn County police officer, had been a longtime investigator in her office until his retirement last May.
Then a second prosecutor then finds no reason to charge citing insufficient cause to arrest Mr. Arbery’s pursuers. He argued that they had acted legally under Georgia’s citizen arrest and self-defense laws. But he too then recused himself from the case because but only after it was learned that his son had worked in the Brunswick prosecutor’s office with Gregory McMichael.
It seems that there was perhaps an early effort to not further investigate or prosecute the case based on personal biases and professional acquaintances. Not unheard of in small towns and communities.
This has only really come to light on a national level just in the last week, after the video of the shooting was released, obsensivly by a lawyer of the shooters but not their "official lawyer" who though the video would exonorate his friends.
